Dan McKeon, Director - TrekNorth High School

Greetings!

Thank you for taking the time to cruise our website. TrekNorth Junior & Senior High School is an amazing place, and we try to capture some of the “TrekNorth Experience” on our website, including photos of students doing everything from science lab work to backpacking in Alaska.

Hopefully you’ll find evidence of the three major components of the TrekNorth Program:
• College-Readiness
• Outdoor Adventure
• A Sense of Community

In a nutshell, those three things capture everything about TrekNorth, and if you’re a junior or senior high school student, or the parent of a junior or senior high school student, we’d love the opportunity to share information about our program with you.

My name is Dan McKeon, and I am the Executive Director of the school. I’ve been at TrekNorth since the very beginning, first as an English teacher, then as an English teacher and the Director of the Outdoor Adventure Program, and now as the Director of the overall program.

This school means the world to me (as do my wife Alison and husky Willie), and I think we’ve got the greatest group of students and staff ever assembled anywhere! I’ve taught in places as varied as the South Bronx in New York City, the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation in South Dakota, and the tiny fishing town of Sitka, Alaska, and after spending several years at TrekNorth I can’t imagine being in any other school.

For parents and students thinking about joining TrekNorth, the key thing to consider is whether college is in the plans for you or your student. When a student enrolls here the faculty will assume it’s because that student wants to go to a college of their choice; therefore, we design classes, assign homework, and have expectations that are consistent with preparing a student for college. Choosing TrekNorth means choosing to do homework, choosing to take challenging courses, choosing to engage in high-level discussion with your teachers and peers, and choosing to learn how to travel responsibly through wilderness environments.

The TrekNorth faculty firmly believes that arigorous academic experience combined with wilderness travel will prepare students to not only be successful in college, but to become the type of citizen who can make a positive difference in their local and global communities.

Again, thank you for taking the time to check out our website. TrekNorth is a public charter school, and there is a link that will allow a person to request an Application Meeting, which is the first step towards becoming a TrekNorth student. If you have questions or if you’d like a tour, or even to spend part of a school day at TrekNorth, just call 444-1888 and we’ll point you in the right direction.

Sincerely,

Dan McKeon